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Surge (2020)

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Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 105m
Director: Aneil Karia
Cast: Ben Whishaw, Jasmine Jobson, Ellie Haddington

Synopsis:

An airport security worker blows a fuse and hightails around London holding up banks by means of written notes to the cashier.

Review:

An intriguing story idea for a short (pressures of modern life and their effect on the faceless machinery of the state?) is here stretched out interminably. Without, furthermore, any clear trigger for his distemper, or explanation for his behaviour, we witness Whishaw twitch and grimace in harmony with a doggedly handheld camera and dropped frames as he spins out of control. The hotel room sequence almost seems to have been improvised on the spot, as a self-conscious, out-of-context homage to Harry Caul in The Conversation. And is it really so easy to hold up banks these days?

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Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 105m
Director: Aneil Karia
Cast: Ben Whishaw, Jasmine Jobson, Ellie Haddington

Synopsis:

An airport security worker blows a fuse and hightails around London holding up banks by means of written notes to the cashier.

Review:

An intriguing story idea for a short (pressures of modern life and their effect on the faceless machinery of the state?) is here stretched out interminably. Without, furthermore, any clear trigger for his distemper, or explanation for his behaviour, we witness Whishaw twitch and grimace in harmony with a doggedly handheld camera and dropped frames as he spins out of control. The hotel room sequence almost seems to have been improvised on the spot, as a self-conscious, out-of-context homage to Harry Caul in The Conversation. And is it really so easy to hold up banks these days?


Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 105m
Director: Aneil Karia
Cast: Ben Whishaw, Jasmine Jobson, Ellie Haddington

Synopsis:

An airport security worker blows a fuse and hightails around London holding up banks by means of written notes to the cashier.

Review:

An intriguing story idea for a short (pressures of modern life and their effect on the faceless machinery of the state?) is here stretched out interminably. Without, furthermore, any clear trigger for his distemper, or explanation for his behaviour, we witness Whishaw twitch and grimace in harmony with a doggedly handheld camera and dropped frames as he spins out of control. The hotel room sequence almost seems to have been improvised on the spot, as a self-conscious, out-of-context homage to Harry Caul in The Conversation. And is it really so easy to hold up banks these days?

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